The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1939, Page 3

MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1939 by Frances She ley Wees & LO Cm erence re reeeevesaereeereoresneeeesunviane YESTERDAY. They open the box, but instead of diamonds, find pebbles wrapped in paper, and love letters. Tuck discovers that there are two kinds of paper, bond and newsprint. She divides the scraps into two piles. John Forrester grunted unin-' telligently. “Pebbles,” Tuck murmured. “Pebbles. Patterns.” “Is’ there’ any way,” Bunny asked suddenly, “of knowing THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Trojaitis Take Second Half Flag With Win Yesterday By OSCAR L. MILIAN The mighty arm of Dickey Navarro clicked and the Key ; West Conchs went down to de- Fok Meee. ss feat.at the hands of the Trojans, |Gates 2b 5-3, at .Trumbo Field yesterday | Sterling, 1b Z ai Player— {Domenech, cf - 'CONCHS AND TROJANS LEAD | ALL BATTERS: | — | f TEEN ON EITHER ONE OF TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY PAGE THREE | A Word of Health Advice whieh pebbles were wrapped in those pieces of paper, even if we , have mixed them; are they all just alike or not?” Michael looked at her approv: | After reviewing my “Gal Fri- ;streamliner, the “Henry M. Flag- | jday’s” column of last week I’ve/ler”, on its pre-inaugural run jabout concluded that it is a|from Jacksonville to Miami. iwaste of time for me to be! And I want to tell you folks, anuse ee with a column me an- jit : a beech of a train, modern , noyin: e customers wit my ‘and up-to-the-mi ii ords show that Key West Conchs cay Sethate when she can do a EREES affording yeti (Fab jand Trojans’ players dominate | much better. |gers advantages and comforts be- the league in the hitting depart-| What she said about the Kay|yond those found in Pullman afternoon. The victory won the\Joe Navarro, c second-half pennant for the Tro- | Alonzo, rf _. ns and a right to dispute for Kelly, 3b ‘ Rise Davila, If ingly and pushed the heap of peb- | the championship of the city in (b: Nagaire, P- ple meditatively and fingered ‘cphey ae t Ear all alike,” |? five-game post series. the papers. Tuck put her hand Tuck said dubiously.. “Are they? ; Both clubs scored in the initial | Pa icetie frye tas Spheres: It seems ta me some of them aren’t inning and the Conchs led 2 to Key West Conchs rney was listen-| quite as shiny as the rest.” \1 through the fifth frame with! Player— ABR HPOA THESE TEAMS Chapter 19 { The Sundial MICHAEL tapped his right tem- By OSCAR L. MILIAN Official individual batting rec- ot or a CNOCOMHONY CHHOMMwon tt onwreeiwcm'y BOCCHOMYODH cCOMmMooCONO EH Totals— ing, his hand shading his eyes. _Michael picked up the larger pile of papers and counted them absently. “Eighteen,” he muttered. “Eighteen,” Tuck echoed under her breath. The District Attorney bent for- ward suddenly and looked at Bun- ny. “It’s a cool night,” he told her. “Strange how cool it gets of an evening.” Tuck looked at him. She gasped. “You've got it!” she said. Michael taised his eyebrows. “Eighteen!” she cried. “Eighteen, and there are thirty all together. That leaves twelve, Michael!” “I have been led to believe so,” he said gravely. “And——?” Her eyes were shining. “The words fairly rfhg in my ears... twelve of them, on a fine chain. Don't you see, Michael? It is the diamonds!” Michael looked down at the peb- bles incredulously. They iay all together in a little heap on the table. He picked one up, and fin- ered it. “Damn!” he said fervent- “Damn, Michael?” Bunny in- quired politely. “We shouldn’t have mixed them. Maybe the child’s right. Maybe twelve of them do mean something ... although they’re certainly all rocks together.” “Why are they wrapped up? I don’t get it.” _“To keep ’em all nice and warm, like the letters,” he said soberly. “Don't be a fool. Could he have written a letter on the paper that wrapped these pebbles, then torn it all up into little bits like this?” “What for?” “How do I know?” “There’s no writing on the pa- per.” “Those pencil marks. Maybe it’s one word, in big thin letters. Torn up. All the marks I found were on the smooth paper. It means some- thing.” “T think they kept the pebbles to count the days by,” Tuck said moodily. “One for each day of the month, If they sent each other fiv. pebbles it meant they would m on the fifth.” “Tut tut,” said Michael. “Come on with your pencil marks, Bun- ny. Her mind’s wandering.” “Do you know,” Bunny said sud- denly, looking up from the paper in her hand, “those lines go right along the edge. If the paper were torn exactly straight they wouldn’t show at all.” Michael stared at her. “Torn along the mark, eh? Well, then “Well then,” Tuck repeated in a choked little voice, “we can fit them back together again the way he tore them. Because if he tore them on lines he must have meant John Forrester had left his chair again, and stood at the desk. He looked down at the twelve bits of bond paper, pushed into a heap by Michael's long restless fingers. “It’s a picture puzzle,” he said slowly. “I never was good at puzzles,” Michael said. The puzzle was not easy to solve, but time and patience did it at last. On some of the papers pencilings were not to be found even aftet the most careful scrutiny; the con- sequence was that no ‘one knew which side of those pieces should o uppermost, and as all of the its seemed to be of much the same shape, roughly triangular, for a time it seemed as if they, were getting nowhere. But Tuck started them on the right Seek when she pushed to one side four pieces which were less triangular and 1ore oblong than the others. Shiny and Dull Ts some sort of pattern,” she said absorbedly. “Not just torn any old way.” She fingered the four papers she had pushed aside. She put them in a row next each other, but they did not fit. She tried making a square with them, one at each side, but they. were not wide enough. Then, systematically, she picked up each of the other eight pieces and fitted it, first one side up and then the other. to each of the oblongs, until she found where it belonged. That was the correct procedure; and in a short time the fitted pattern lay before them. The four oblongs, it seemed, radiated at right angles from a common center, and between each poe two long triangles fitted neat- ly. The outer circumference of the pattern was a rounded square and the center was a round hole. Tuck stared at it. Bunny tapped absently on the table-top. Michael pulled his ear, “There's something about it that looks sort of familiar,” he mut-. tered to tt I’m hanged if get it. Do you, dad? Mean any- thing to you? “Isn't it the way the light strikes them, Puck?” “I don’t know. Can you see it?” “T don’t think I can, not quite.” “I believe I can,” Bunny said. “That third one looks a little mud- dy.Ig that what-you mean, Tuck? Those on either side of it are black and shiny.” “That's what 1 mean. Now... Bunny, you watch and tell me if Tm right. 'm going to move out of line all the.ones that look black and shiny.” Site put her finger out and went down the line slowly, carefully, pushing here and there a pebble out of line. “There they are,” she said, when she had finished, “You've got sixteen black ones, i and fourteen dull ones, Tuck,’ Bunny counted. “Try it again,” Michael said with a: queer note of éxcitement. Tuck went down the line again. ‘Here's one I’m not sure of,” she murmured. “It might be either.” She picked it up and scrutinized it | closely. “I believe it’s a black one, though.” She went on; and when the ex- periment was over, they had eighteen black and shining peb- bles in one heap and twelve, a lit- tle duller in the other. “Those are the pebbles that came out of these pieces, then,” Michael said. “Now, what the devil—gosh, this is getting exciting.” Bunny shut her eyes tightly, and leaned. back in her chair. Tuck wandered around the room, head bent, in deep abstraction. Gordon Deane’s dog, next door, set up a furious barking. Tuck stepped out on the sun porch, and peered anx- iously about for Agamemnon, The garden, white in the moon- light, lay before her. ‘The Pattern’ ‘UDDENLY she called Michael |. in a strange voice. “Look,” she said. “There it is! There it is, Mi- chael! Bunny!” “What, Tuck? Where is it!” “The pattern—don’t you see? The pattern! I knew it was fa- miliar.” “I don’t see anything but the sundial, Tuck ... is that the pat- tern?” “No, don’t be so stupid. That’s the hole! That’s the thing that he left out, the sundial! Those lon, gblongs are the*four paths, ani the triangles are the flower beds!” Michael straightened up sudden- ly. “She’s right, by George!” “And he left out the sundial,” Tuck said to herself. “He left out the sundial.” “Tt made one piece too many, Tuck.” “Umhm.” She stared out at it, white under the moonlight. “It’s very pretty,” she said. “It’s too bad he left it out.” Her eyes danced suddenly, and she turned on them. “Don’t you see?” she cried. “Can’t you guess?” “T admit I can’t.” Michael shook his head. “Nor I, Tuck.” “That sundial .. . it’s carved out of something, sandstone or something, I suppose. And around the bottom is a row of round stones; and around the top, just at the edge of the face, is another row of round stones... only. they're littler. Pebbles.” She ran indoors and sized one of the little dulled pebbles, to rub it with a moistened finger. “Whitewash,” she said succinct. ly. “He couldn't wash all of it off.” Michael whooped suddenly. “It you aren’t the brightest girl!" he eo “That’s where they are! . “The diamonds, Michael?” asked Bunny. é “I suppose it miist be. “Hadht we better it's darker. Michael?” “No.” “In @ moment all four were ‘ouped about the sundial, staring lown at its calm face excitedly. Tuck touched the .row of pebbles around the outside. ¥ are ex- actly. the same size.” she told mi. “There are a hundred and forty- four of them.” iieaset murmured after a mément. “I suppose that’s what gave the old boy his idea. Ith probably be every twelfth pebble. do we start? Mi- n. wait until “But. where chael, I think I should just col- lapse if this turned out to be a mistake! I couldn’t bear it.” Michael-touched a pane ee slow- ST think ty is e t- at the of the sundial, he decided. He shook it with fingers; it was firm, altho some of the whitewash came in his hand. He took out his penknife and theust it underneath, and the peb- ble came out of its ceaad say. knife. Michael cut at it with ht,” he said. “Th Ea no ph ble. It's a lump of wax—and here’s the first diamond, my dears.” OR MAYBE ‘ARRY Mistress—Whose was _ that en? Maid—Oh —er—my brother, mum. Mistress—What is his name? Maid—Er—I think it’s ’Erbert, in. their arithmetic after figuring year’s mum. | _ one man’s voice I heard in the kitch-}, School Visitor—You encourage ithe outcome in doubt until the Baker, 2b \Sixth round when the Trojans’ | Villareal, rf _. {batting attack, led by William |Offutt, cf —... | “Butch” Cates, scoring a double | Acevedo, ss and two singles in four tries, C. Griffin, c jhopped on “Bullet” Joe Casa, the Torres, lf _... Conchs’ iron-man hurler, to put |Carbonell. 3b . lover a marker in each inning to |M. Griffin, 1b - |the end of the game. Casa, p | Up until then the teams were | :held to two hits apiece but the |’ Totals— |Red Devils increased their total } Score by innings: jhits to eight the while Dickey | Trojans was holding down the hard-hit- | Conchs . 200 000 001— 3 |ting Conchs until the ninth in-} Runs-batted-in: Sterling 2, jning when the losing club piled | Acevedo, C. Griffin, Joe Navar- ‘up three consecutive safeties in 'ro, Domenech, Ss abeocoace parks a threatening rally. |base hits: Joe Navarro, Cates, In an exhibition seven-inning | Sterling, Domenech, Carbonell; game the Conchs beat the Blue three-base hits: C. Griffin; sacri- | Sox 6 e 2. Molina was touched ‘fice hits: John iprinadi tear ely for 12 hits’ while young Charles | Acevedo; stolen bases: Davila 2, Albury held the Sox to three Offutt; passed balls: wleeiepee scattered hits. _The Lastres’ Joe Navarro 2; bases on balls: 0: brothers and Leo Stanley starred Casa 3, D. Navarro 3; struck out: for the winning club at bat. ; by D. Navarro 4, by Casa 4; left Box score of Conch-Trojan af-|on bases: Trojans 6, Conchs 6; RR 09 0 wo 02 mo SCoooHoomE COMMFOCROCONE -» 5 R fair: ‘umpires: Vidal and Griffin. THE WEATHER Observation taken at 7:30 a. m. 75th Mer. Time Temperatures Highest last 24 hours - ; Lowest last night Mean Normal - 15 63 | 69 z Pp Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., nehes > Total rainfall since Dec. 1, inches Deficiency since December i aes: Total rainfall since January 1, inches 0.00 0.19 Tomorrow’s Almanac Sunrise 7:03 a. Sunset 5:39 p. Moonrise 8:21 a. Moonset . 7:34 p. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. m. m. P.M. Low . 3:55 High — Barometer at 7:30 Sea level = Wind in and Velocity NW—4 miles per hour Relative Humidity 95% N. B.—Comfortable humidity should be a few points below mean temperature FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly jcloudy tonight and Tuesday; not much change in gentle to moderate northerly winds becoming variable. N.B.—Forecast indicates winds between 8-18 miles per hour Florida: Partly cloudy tonight and ‘Tuesday; somewhat colder in north and west-central portions tonight. m., today CONDITIONS Pressure is moderately high this morning. over the Pacific ‘southward to the Gulf of Mexico; while low pressure areas of con- siderable intensity, centered over the northern Rocky Mountain States and off the north Atlantic coast, overspread most of the remainder of the country. Pre- cipitation has occurred during the last 24 hours over far west- fern and northeastern districts, with heavy rain on the coast of Oregon, and there has been light scattered rain on the middle Gulf coast and in eastern Flor- lida. Temperatures have fallen in |the upper and middle Mississippi land Ohio Valleys and Lake re- igidn; while elsewhere changes readings are ve normal jthroughout most’ sections of the jcountry. this morni | G. S. KB 23 Official In Charge. COW’S KICK COSTLY ee MIDLAND, Md.—Just as he ‘was finishing up his chores in ipreparaticn for Thanksgiving Day, a cow kicked a lantern your. pupils to take an interest from the hands of C. Edgar in professional baseball? Teacher—Yes, indeed, I find pile of straw, spread {Llewellyn. Flames ignited a the temperature; | States and from the Lake region | ‘ALARM SYSTEM IN GOOD SHAP LINES THROUGHOUT CITY CHECKED BY. ELECTRICAL j | i | DEPARTMENT The city fire alarm system has been placed in perfect working {condition, and is now ready to transmit all signals in a correct 0,39 /and accurate manner, said City|able player award winner. Ace- |Electrician Theodore Albury. é __.38.61|~ A little’ more than a'month ago jhas ¢louted 29 hits, including five Excess since Jan. 1, inches 1.59'it was found that errors were }doubles and a triple, which ac- {made in the transmission of sig- m.jnals and this happened so fre-'and the 20 times he tallied for m.|quently it was decided that a ‘his club. Stolen base honors are |complete investigation of the jlines would be necessary. | This was done by Mr. Albury |and it was found that about three \miles of the lines were in such {condition that they would have 10:35 |to be renewed and at once the} lines were ordered and the . 30.01|work of getting the system in} |condition was started. | Mr. Albury and Mechanic Clar- jence Thompson worked on the |system, running lines and making replacements of parts when it | was found necessary. ‘GIRL STUDENTS _ SERVED ROTARY |WAITRESS SCHOOL TO END | THIS WEEK; MANY GET JOBS |. The class of local girls engaged in learning to be waitresses in |the State Vocational School here |served the weekly luncheon of {Rotary Club last Thursday noon at St! Paul’s parish hall. The class, under the super- | vision 0& Miss Gertrude Laubsch- er is sponsored by the state in ‘connection with the local Board jof Education and is engaged in | preparing a number of local girls |to be fitted for waitress work. | The movement is looked upon with favor by local hotel and \restaurant operators, as in the |past there has been a shortage lof experienced help in this field. Several of the class members, who had some experience, have secured jobs already. The school will continue for another week. Last week Leo Braxton Warren addresed the class on floral arrangements for parties and banquets. OVERLIN. RETURNS FROM HONEYMOON Howard Overlin, manager of \the Southern Bell Telephone |Co., in Key West, and Mrs. Over- lin, who were married in Miami on the morning of November 18, and left on a honeymoon for three weeks’ stay in northern cities, returned over the highway ‘that. they improve wonderfully barn and sheds and burned his/|last week. ‘up batting averages. harvest. D Lestimated at $15,000. were Mrs. Overlin was formerly Mrs. Dorothy Chalker and the daugh- ‘ment with 13 of the 15 highest family being in a_ position to/| men on the list as members of |Teally appreciate TWO Thanks- the two top teams. Remaining |8ivinét perenne are apa, jtwo players are listed with the | come through the experience as Blue Sox. | well as we did. This business of | Best record of the season is 'turning double somersaults in an | being held by Julius “Sonny Boy” |automobile isn’t all it’s cracked | Villareal, Conchs’ young lefthand |¥P t0 be, even if it is plenty | a sipping | cracked up”. jouttielder who has been clipping|. “Since J Be tare comet! the ball at a .400 or better rate ty accurate deseription of the | 100 001 111— 5|through the combined first- and | wreck, Tll not go into that—jnew toy, everyone wanted to in- |second-half. Poling out 31 safe | going through it is enough! Any- shits in 73 trips to the batter’s|how, I’m back in circulation|milling down ‘the aisles before i jagain with only a few cuts and; box, Viliareal is shown second on bruises 2nd while Mrs. Kay iat the hitting list with an average | in j rs : | 4 still in the hospital with a bone {ae 424, although he went hitless | linter that will have to mend |in the Blue Sox-Conch contest of Niles see ous. eae “steppin’s two. Sundays. ago. Most “;_/out”, Im happy to report that] batted-in, most extra base. hits | she is resting comfortably an a | and most runs scored honors also | ; \go to the der. |making progress toward recov- | |. Marvin Griffin, Conch utility |“"¥ ae A Both of us are truly grateful Player, tops. the leading Biers sor an handiede of oe calls, pyshivan sverage Gpeugs ’ ‘ he | telegrams, letters, flowers and has only visited the batter’s box | |. 5 | a 5 st gifts that have poured in from jone-third the times as Villareal. all over the state, Certainly no i eA As; Walam ‘Butch’ lone ever had more loyal or Cates, former Conch second base- | : 2 | Hii thoughtful friends. It hasn’t jman; who leads the Trojans’ clan 1 ears been possible for us to personally | with a .388 mark. Cates, prob- acknowledge these many ex- jably rated the most valuable pressions of chi d tie dship lwith 14 rama, In most rune-bat- |27¥6. ‘Bat end uplll time per- \ted-in “Butch” and Clayton |Sterling, whose name appears \fourth, are tied’ with each knock- jing home 11 runs for the Tro- ljans. Sterling leads the club in | poling extra base hits with 10 to his credit. Fifth position is being held by Armando Acevedo, Conch short- etupper and last year’s most valu- mits a more personal reply. In spite of the blow-out patches the doc plastered me with, I was able to take advantage of an invitation from Senator Loftin to join his party for a ride on the Florida East Coast Railway’s new. vedo, with 86 trips to the plate, Lost SMALL BLACK PERSIAN CAT; was wearing collar with bell. Reward. Finder please apply to Box R, clo The Citizen. decl1-2tx count for the 12 runs batted in ‘even with Acevedo and Esmond \“Tarzan” Albury, a teammate land a .333 hitter, tied with nine japiece. The surprise of the season is the hitting of Joe “Dizz” Garcia, Blue Sox outfielder, and John |Torres, a discarded Pirate gard- ener, now a member of Hamlin’s Conchs. The pair, who finished the first-half with the discourag- ing average of .100, came through in the second-half to win a place jin the .300 class. Torres has a {mark of .323, 12 points ahead of |Garcia, .311. Leading hitters: Player-Team— ABR H Ave. |M. Griffin, KWC 25 111 .444 \J. Villareal, KWC 73 21 31 .424 |Wm. Cates, T 72 14 28 .388 {Cl Sterling, T . 67 12 24 .359 |A. Acevedo, KWC 86 20 29 .337 E, Albury, KWC _ 78 20 26 .333 A. Davila. T - 412 .333 J. Torres, KWC _ 56 9 18 323 |J. Carb’nell, KWC 38 8 12 .316 I. Rodriguez, T . 38 912 .316 817 314 819 311 812 .307 \C. Griffin, KWC . 72 15 22 .305 J. Navarro, T —. 33 110 .303 QUINTETS PLAY ~~ TONIGHT AT GYM COAST GUARDS VS. GRILLS AND LIONS VS. ARMY IN LEAGUE GAMES FOR RENT PRIVATE HOME FOR RENT, furnished. All modern con- veniences. 1403 Catherine St. dec2-1mo FURNISHED APARTMENT, two rooms with bath. Electric re- frigeration. (Adults). Apply 609 Francis Street. dec8-3tx FURNISHED APARTMENTS, electric refrigerators. Apply Valdes Bakery. sept30-3mo PRIVATE HOME with all modern conveniences; also, hot and cold running ‘wa- ter. 1418 Catherine Street. Low Punic, Hoar 618 Wittns street. nov9-Imox LOT, Cor. Duval and Louisa streets. 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